Other major languages include Arabic (12%), Somali (11%), Nepali (4%), Spanish (2%), Creoles (2%) and Persian (2%).

In 2016, Timbercreek evicted residents from 80 townhomes in Heron Gate, to make room for new developments in the area.

[16] The decision to redevelop the area received criticism from residents and interested parties such as the UN special rapporteur on Adequate Housing,[17] and was described as the "'largest forced displacement in Canada' in recent history.

[20] Nonetheless, Heron Gate has been noted by scholars such as Emily Power, Bjarke Skærlund Risager,[21] and Marina Gomá as an important site of working class, anti-racist activism by its residents.

As Gomá notes, “The Herongate Tenant Coalition articulates a different reality to the narrative of Canadian benevolence, embodying class solidarity, denouncing structural racism, and recruiting allies to donate to their legal case against Timbercreek Management.”[22] Following an extended grassroots activist campaign and a human rights challenge,[23] Timbercreek agreed to provide CAD$2,000 in moving compensation, relocation assistance and negotiated discounts with Ottawa moving companies.